White Family: The Crash of '13

Hello??....Hello? Is this thing on? haha.

So as history will have it, the year 2013 will go down as the black hole of technology death. Let me explain:

When your computer goes black and comes up with a message that reads "Insert boot drive disk" and nothing else? You're screwed. Of course I didn't know I was screwed...I found that out two weeks later when the computer techie dude said, "It's toast. Total hard drive failure. Hope you backed up recently."

*Insert a cloud of obscenities here*

I never back my computer up-BUT! Paul does. Unfortunately, the last time he had done it was in January. My computer crashed in September. That is a crap load of pictures. I mean.....at least 500. GONE. VANISHED. *insert childlike sobbing and fit throwing with a side of mental turmoil and anguish*

Having your computer crash is like the bomb that keeps exploding. Out of the blue I would say, "Oh NOOOO!!!" because I would remember a set of pictures that were gone to me forever. However, I still had my phone photos, and that is where the real action is happening, right? I mean...the phone camera catches the real moments and sometimes the best pictures, right? So I still had over 1,000 photos and videos on my phone. Silver. Lining.

UNTIL....

Yep. The VERY SAME WEEK that my computer died.....my phone died!-for no reason, mind you. It was sitting on the counter-working one minute and dead as a doornail the next. Well! This sent me into a total and complete nervous breakdown. I ran to the nearest Apple store and begged them to fix it....at least long enough to retrieve my photos.

No. Luck.

Not only did I loose all my photos....but I had to buy a new phone. After sitting there for three hours, I walked out of the store photo-less and a lot more poor. I promptly found a drive-through, ordered a burrito and had myself a sob session/pity party in the car in a dark parking lot.

Oh.....but it doesn't stop there. The universe wasn't done. I mean....my camera was still working. Until it wasn't. Ugh! (I'm not making this up. I really felt like I had walked into the Twilight Zone..or at least into a giant magnet. ha.) So I had headed out to take pictures of Olivia in her Halloween costume to try and lift my spirits and create some new photos that I might love more than the ones I had lost. It was going great until I noticed a large black spot on every picture. I cleaned the lens...still there. I switched lenses.....still there. Took it home and thoroughly cleaned it but the black spot kept showing up on every picture. This was the final straw. I called Paul and was so upset and depressed that he left work early. He said he was worried for his children. HAHA.
He immediately took me out for Mexican food because lets be honest....what can't Mexican food solve? Not much. Salsa Verde is truly the answer to most of my problems.;)

Long story short: Paul fixed my camera. He also found me a new computer WITH full coverage and access to a techie guy that will fix anything that goes wrong and I'm currently in the process of backing up and triple backing up every photo and video I own. The great news is this: All the photos on my blog are full size. I never make them smaller before uploading them to blogger. I never knew how....but I'm glad I didn't know because now I had access to several pictures through this blog. I also had uploaded some photos to facebook and while the quality isn't great, it's enough to print a 4x6 and to have a great digital copy. Like this one:

I'm so glad I still have a copy of this. One of my favorites-ever!

I can't even begin to try and catch this blog up to date. My Instagram account will have to suffice for the summer and fall of 2013. However, here are a few pictures of Olivia that I did a few weeks ago.